Capabilities

CORE STRENGTHS:

Online Publishing (Newspapers, Magazines).

Online Community Development (Portals, Blogs, Newsletters).

E-commerce Alternatives (Couture Brands, Real Estate).

REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE:

VP, Product Development for Total Beauty. Built and deployed the core Website product, hired and managed a 10 person development team.

Director of Technology for Seventeen Magazine, Teen Magazinge & gURL for 4+ years at Primedia, Heart & iVillage.

Web Technology Lead for Gazette Newspapers, a subsidiary of the Washington Post.

Core Technology Team Member: Delias, iTURF, Department of Education.

EDUCATION:

M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University, 2000-2002

B.A., Cinema Studies & Journalism, New York University, 1993-1997

OPERATING SYSTEMS:

UNIX (Solaris, SunOS, FreeBSD, Linux, NeXTStep)

Mac OS X

Mac OS 9

DATABASES: (administration, programming & design)

Oracle

MYSQL

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES:

Perl (mod_perl, cgi, OraPerl, OOP)

SQL

PHP

CGI

Javascript

HTML

dHTML

CSS

XML

Shell Scripting (Bash & Bourne)

Sed & Awk

familiarity with Tcl/Tk

familiarity with C++.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION:

Solaris (on Sun & Intel)

FreeBSD

Oracle

MySQL

Apache

Qmail

Sendmail

MEDIA:

Digital video/audio conversion, particularly video to Flash and audio to MP3.

Image optimization for the Web.

Strategic Website design.

EDITORIAL:

Magazine article writing.

Proof-reading.

Documentation.

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

Content Management Systems (proprietary, shareware & self-designed systems; Typo3, Vignette Storyserver, Drupal, Movable Type)

E-Commerce (Verisign, ShopSite & custom built)

CVS & Subversion

Doubleclick

Moviso

Wiki

Netscape Livewire

Resin

Oddcast

LoadRunner

Load balancers & general routing

NeXT

Backup implementation

Firewalls

SMTP, POP & IMAP

IRC

Microsoft Word & Excel

Quark Xpress

Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat & ImageReady

Macromedia Dreamwaver, Flash, Shockwave

MP3/MP4 conversion

WRITING EXPERIENCE:

Published articles for New York Moves magazine

Spark Notes' Matrix Guide (2003).

Currently writing first novel/memoir, Hack Chick.

LANGUAGES/FOREIGN CULTURE:

Moderate Italian.

Moderate French.

Lived abroad in Rome, Italy and Melbourne, Australia.

SPECIAL INTERESTS:

Sailing (J24s from Manhattan Yacht Club).

Vegetarian.

Reading: George Owell, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Houllebecq, Bret Easton Ellis, Jane Austen.